Born, raised, and intellectually and culturally formed in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, the whaling capital of the world in the
1800's, Donald Sidney-Fryer came to the Golden State when he turned
twenty-one. During 1956 through 1960 and the summer of 1964, he
studied Theatre Arts, French, and Spanish at U.C.L.A., and received
his B.A. in French language and literature in September of 1964.
His discovery of the prose fictions and poetry of Clark Ashton
Smith led to Sidney-Fryer's investigation of that group of poets
and fictioneers to which Smith belonged, now known (thanks to
Sidney-Fryer) as the California Romantics. This fantastic pride of
scriveners includes Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, Nora May
French, and others. In the five decades since 1961, the year of
Smith's death, Sidney-Fryer has written at length on these writers,
their lives, and their over-all achievements, as well as editing
significant collections of their writings, when otherwise they
remained almost totally neglected and unheralded. Apart from the
two dozen books and booklets he has compiled, written, and/or
edited, Sidney-Fryer has done more than pioneer in scholarship
concerning Ashton Smith and his fellow poets. Summoned by his first
and extended reading of Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene to
his own vocation as a poet (during the winter and spring of 1961),
Sidney- Fryer has in particular continued the traditions of the
California Romantics in an innovative and radical manner. He has
also given innumerable recitals not just of his own works but of
those by his chosen predecessors, including Spenser along with many
others. This volume gathers together for the first time the essays
and reviews of this pioneer of phantastick literature, mostly long
out of print and reprinted here for the first time.
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